William Anderson ( 1835 - 1898 )

Birth: St Petersburg, Russia (05 January 1835) Death: Woolwich Arsenal (11 December 1898) Profession: Engineer Education: St Petersburg; King's College, London Career: Went to England (1849); pupil of Sir William Fairbairn (FRS 1850) (1855); joined the firm Easton and Amos, Southwark (1864); worked on gun and turret mountings; designed machinery to manufacture cordite for the War Office (c 1888); Director General of ordnance factories (1889) Honours: CB 1895; KCB 1897 Memberships: MIMechE; MICE Membership: Fellow Election Date: 4/06/1891.